Student Research Expo
Student Research Expo Winners for 2022:
Thank you once again to all who made the 18th Annual Student Research Expo possible. The awards for outstanding entries and Sigma Xi Award as selected by our panel of judges are:
Outstanding entries in the Undergraduate Division:
- Lauren Saucedo – In Vitro Rearing of Honey Bee Workers to Understand the Effects of the American Foulbrood Disease. (JT Van Leuven, faculty mentor)
- Jacob Schow – Host Range Expansion of Phage Against Pseudomonas aeruginosa. (Craig Miller, faculty mentor)
Outstanding entries in the Graduate Division:
- Nick Hoffman – Continuous light treatments reduce precocious maturation in age 1+ male spring Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha). (Andrew Pierce [Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission] and James Nagler, mentors)
- Marinda Stanton – A Study of the Cytotoxic Mechanism of Killer Protein 4-Like proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. (Paul Rowley, faculty mentor)
- Yoram Terleth – Continuous passive seismic observations of the most recent surge of Sít’ Kusá (Turner Glacier), Alaska. (Tim Bartholomaus, faculty mentor)
Sigma Xi Award:
- Victor Zhong – Characterization of novel dsRNA viruses found in Euglena mutabilis. (Paul Rowley and Doug Cole, faculty mentors)
Outstanding entries in the Virtual Exhibit Hall:
- Clara Abplanalp – Analysis of the Roslyn Formation and Comparison of Paleocene-Eocene Floras in the Pacific Northwest. (Renee Love, faculty mentor)
- Akorede Seriki – Learning from bacteria; the same, yet different. (Chris Marx, faculty mentor)
Congratulations to all of these students for their outstanding work!